Background
KATANYAN, Ruben was born in 1881. Son of a teacher.
KATANYAN, Ruben was born in 1881. Son of a teacher.
Studied at Moscow University.
1901 joined revol movement. Frequently arrested by Tsarist authorities. 1903-1904 worked in student soc-democratic organisation in Moscow, for which he was arrested.
1905 worked in Social-Dcmocratic organisation on Orenburg Railroad. 1906-1908 did undercover work in Moscow and Tbilisi. 1908-1909 co-ed, Bolshevik journal “Bor’ba,” Tiflis.
1909-1913 conducted litpropaganda work for Tiflis Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Organisation 1917 member, Moscow Centr Trade-Union Bureau. March-September 1917 member.
Internationalist Group. During 1917 October Revol worked for “Izvestiya Voyenno-revolyutsionnogo komiteta”. 1919 served on front with 11 th Army as cd, newspaper “Krasnyy voin,” then head, Polil Department, Army Polit Board.
1920-1921 head, Agitation and Propaganda Department, Central Committee, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). From 1923 assistant to Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Slate Prosecutor. Senior assistant to Supreme Court Prosecutor.
1933-1937 senior assistant, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics State Prosecutor. Prosecutor in a number of political trials. 1938 arrested by State Security organs.
1955 rehabilitated and pensioned.
Religion is an instrument of the ruling classes to instill in the masses the religious conviction that their current suffering will lead to eventual happiness.
Communist Party of the Soviet Union is the guiding force of all socialist countries, and the nucleus of their political system.
Communist Party member from 1903.